They didn’t really look like a Division I team. In fact, they didn’t look like a Division II team, either.
As lopsided losses started to pile up, it was hard to determine just how rough of a year it was going to be for the Warren G. Harding boys basketball team. Maybe they could finish ...

CLEVELAND - Look at his feet. You’ll see the black sneakers with yellow lip and laces worn by Kyle Korver.
The Cleveland Cavaliers guard takes shot after shot. His lanky, 6-foot-7 frame is squared up to the glass hoop inside Quicken Loans Arena.
Korver’s feet are parallel as he swishes ...

WINDHAM
There’s the small lot, snow piled up in scattered places. Enough room to park a tiny Hyundai Accent, which looks like a clown car with this tall, overweight, middle-aged writer standing next to it.
No luck; there’s a small side lot with spaces marked off at 45-degree angles. One ...

Congratulations to the Canfield Cardinals wrestling team which last week became the first area team to advance to the dual team wrestling state tournament.
The Cardinals defeated West Branch and Louisville in the Division II regional last week and will compete next Sunday (Feb. 11) in the ...

It’s generally never a good thing when a 285-pound wrestler points at you in disgust, but this time was a little different.
As former Girard wrestler Ben Norman walked off the mat following a close victory over a fellow heavyweight from Crestview, he pointed at a skinny little reporter and ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State is 6-17. The Penguins are 5-2 at home. They are 1-11 away from the Beeghly Center and 0-4 at neutral sites.
Blah. Blah. Blah. Blah.
The numbers are missing the bigger picture within the YSU men’s basketball program. Don’t get stuck on the numbers even ...

With the high school winter sports season at about the halfway point, it’s time to take a look at the impending postseason.
Before that, a quick note about basketball records and statistics. The Tribune Chronicle sports staff has endeavored this season to keep track of team and league ...

ROCHESTER, Mich. — Two hands on the wheel, eyes ahead and a phone guiding the way.
Belly full from lunch at a franchise owned by a local philanthropist.
All is well … until.
Red brake lights as far as the eye can see approaching Detroit.
Did I make a wrong turn to Frankenmuth, where ...

It was as if Milwaukee was in a trance, wondering what just befell them in the first couple of minutes as its opponent surged way ahead. This sight was different, this team facing them, but not like before.
Frankly, no one gave this team much credit, even after Monday’s win at Cleveland ...

It’s been one year and one day since one of the biggest moments in the last 20 years for Youngstown State University football.
If you’re a sports a fan, you’ve seen the highlight — probably a couple of different times. YSU tight end Kevin Rader caught a ball on the back of a defender ...

They’re hard to overlook, even though some people may want to, just out of spite.
It’s like the New England Patriots in the NFL. There are a lot of great teams and spectacular players, but deep down, everyone knows the Patriots are the team to beat, even if they don’t want to admit ...

So, you are sitting in the stands watching your son or daughter (or grandson, or niece, or granddaughter, or family friend, etc.) play.
Varsity, junior varsity, middle school, even non-school competition, it doesn’t matter.
Inevitably, there is a bad call by an official. At least it looks ...

YOUNGSTOWN
You can see it out on the grassy area, yards ahead from the starting line.
Clusters of athletes wearing their tank tops, shorts and sweatbands, or other thermal wear — depending on the conditions.
Each cross country team gathers before the race. Sometimes the coach has a ...

Longtime Lakeview volleyball coach Scott Taylor was honored this weekend by the Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches Association, receiving the organization’s 2017 Jim Muth Sportsmanship Award.
Taylor spent 21 years — 17 as head coach — coaching volleyball at Lakeview where he also was a ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Jerrod Calhoun said it three times, three times too many in my book.
You should never have to defend hard play, no matter how much the grumblings of some whiners would like you to do so.
So Calhoun’s Youngstown State basketball team scored a school-record 134 points. You ...

AKRON — Youngstown State’s team couldn’t even move about in a cramped locker room inside the James A. Rhodes Arena.
The men’s basketball team took to the adjoining hallway to get some last-minute stretching in, jump a few raised hurdles no bigger than a foot off the ground.
Some ...

The question was posed throughout the season by all kinds of fans, coaches, players and media who follow high school football in the Mahoning Valley, and the debate picked up quite a bit over the last week.
The area’s two best quarterbacks (arguably) finally squared off, and the result was ...

Atiba Taylor said he cannot remember when he did not have a basketball in his hands. The 6-foot-4, 176-pound combination guard is said to have an uncanny court vision.
Schools like LaSalle, Temple, Rutgers, Kansas State and St. Joseph’s (Philadelphia) took notice of the New Jersey standout ...

Many area high school football fans are looking forward to a potential Girard at Lakeview playoff game later this week, but the attention of some is drawn to the unfortunate plight of the 8-2 McDonald Blue Devils.
With the Ohio High School Athletic Association about to release the official ...

Pat Birch had an open-ended invitation. Jerrod Calhoun, Youngstown State’s first-year men’s basketball coach, recently told all the area high school boys basketball coaches that they were invited to his team’s practices.
It was an offer Birch couldn’t refuse. Now Calhoun might not be ...